Archived New York court rules examiners can keep organs without notifying family (theguardian.com)
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Archived New York court rules examiners can keep organs without notifying family (theguardian.com)
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[–] srsh 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
For some families it's gonna cause major drama. When my father died, the hospital told my mother that some of his body parts could be used in organ donations. However, my mother refused and got extremely pissed off topic was even brought up. We got into a really ugly argument ourselves. She didn't give a fuck about saving potential lives of strangers in the future & it was driving me nuts. I kept pushing and refused to drop this topic (especially since you have a very short time window to agree).
Her stance was that God gave him those organs and therefore we need to make sure he has all of them during the funeral. After the wake, he was cremated with his wood coffin. Went to the funeral parlor later to pick up the ashes and realized that there's no way to tell anything apart. All the ashes were the same color and you couldn't even tell what belonged to his body and which ones belonged to the coffin, or to the suit he was wearing. Thought to myself WTF was the point of denying the hospital organ donations.
There are going to be other people out there that want every body part preserved so it can be included in the burial or cremation. Once one of them learns that something is missing, their grief+stress is going turn to anger. Even if it's petty, they're gonna generate as much noise as possible.
[–] ilovepussy ago
You are quite correct. It will cause a HUGE amount of anger and noise.